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High Tide for Hanging

On sale

29th March 2022

Price: £4.99

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781473229129

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At sea, the danger can’t be escaped…

Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring.

‘Compton has been one of Britain’s most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves…Compton’s prose is fine-tuned, his human insights sharp, and his narrative pace filled with the weird synchronicities and dissonances of how violent things usually happen’ INDEPENDENT

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INDEPENDENT
Compton has been one of Britain's most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton's prose is fine-tuned, his human insights sharp, and his narrative pace filled with the weird synchronicities and dissonances of how violent things usually happen